Grace Tsai

Hi, my name is Grace Tsai and I am the principal investigator of the Ship Biscuit and Salted Beef Project. If you want to learn more about me, please check out my personal webpage at: https://www.grace-esther-tsai....

Many have asked how our food items are faring on Elissa given Hurricane Harvey's wake. We have covered the food items on shore with a tarp and secured them a few days earlier in preparation, but as the museum has been closed since Thursday evening, we cannot be sure what their status is. The weather, unfortunately, also puts our sample retrieval dates for the lab analysis several days behind schedule and will modify the original dates we had planned to remove the food items. Thankfully, we already have data from the first 2 rounds of samples taken, which have grown some interesting microbes we will report on soon. Although unfortunate, this weather does add an unexpected element of accuracy to our project as Warwick, the ship we are basing our food items off of, sank in 1619 after a 3-day hurricane off the coast of Bermuda.
Thanks for caring and following our project! We hope all our friends and supporters along the Texas coast are safe.